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Month: February 2006

On today’s show I chat with Hugo Kelly, Aussie political and business journalist, who recently left Aussie site Crikey amidst some very public sturm-und-drang. Not many people in this country can genuinely claim experience in both OLD and NEW media, but Hugo is one of those. We talk about his experiences in both new media and old media, his thoughts about the future of both, Jeff Kennett and Jeffed.com, Crikey, and some of my crazy and naive political ideas.
You can read more about Hugo here, here (in his own Wikipedia article no less), here and here. For the record, I found him to be a top bloke, smart, articulate, and passionate, about politics, about the media, and about his Mum. Nothing wrong with any of that.

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Now… as I haven’t heard from ANYONE who lives in SPAIN, we’re moving on to CHINA. If you live in China, and you listen to this show, let me know and we’ll get you on as a guest! Tell us about where you live! About Google, Yahoo and MSN selling your free speech away for a few shekels. And give me a reason to take a tax-deductible visit to your country!

And email us a scanned postcard so we can put it up in our Flickr group!
Don’t forget about the new TPN promotional flyer. Get the flyer from here. And please print out thousands!

I’ll give away some TPN schwag to the best photo of the TPN flyer in a crazy place each month.

As always, our Intro / Outro music â€œD24â€³ courtesy of Melbourne band Spruiker.

And if you dig the show, pull your goddamn finger out and help us by voting for G’DAY WORLD on Podcast Alley.

On today’s show I chat with David Clarke, Managing Director, Board Member and Founding Partner of Webjet, Australia’s only pure-play online travel agency. He was previously Group Chief Executive of Jetset Travel and Technology Holdings Pty Ltd .

Among other things we talk about:

the origins of Webjet and their vision for online travel services

building the site on Microsoft’s .NET technology and how to manage risks as an early adopter

the failings of the travel industry to provide genuine service and potential opportunities for the future of the industry

the economics of travel agencies and airline commission structures

Now… if you live in SPAIN, and you listen to this show, let me know and we’ll get you on as a guest! Tell us about where you live! Give me a reason to take a tax-deductible visit to your country!

And email us a scanned postcard so we can put it up in our Flickr group!
Don’t forget about the new TPN promotional flyer. Get the flyer from here. And please print out thousands!

I’ll give away some TPN schwag to the best photo of the TPN flyer in a crazy place each month.

As always, our Intro / Outro music â€œD24â€³ courtesy of Melbourne band Spruiker.

And if you dig the show, pull your goddamn finger out and help us by voting for G’DAY WORLD on Podcast Alley.

Jodie Miner… GDAY WORLD listener, SQL programmer, builder, Democrat voter and CHICK. She even joins us on her mobile (and I apologize for the quality of the connection… one reason why Skyping people on their mobile is NOT going to work)

Craig Ashley Russell is writing about podcasting for the Sydney Morning Herald and apparently runs an Aussie podcasting company called Next Big Thing… but we can’t find it

I asked one of my hosts, Van from the Geeks Of Hazzard, who is a graphic designer by day, to knock me up a flyer promoting TPN.We’re going to be promoting this across all of the TPN blogs in the hope that some of our listeners might print them out at work or at home and leave them lying around… in the office lunch room, at their local cafe, sporting venue, star trek convention, whatever.